Dance
Run Don't Run
Choreography by Brian Brooks
Brian Brooks is a daring choreographer, concocting precise, kinetic, and volatile sequences of movement that test the threshold of physical endurance. In Run Don’t Run, Brooks (recently awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship) employs rapid-fire partnering to explore the spatial contradictions of bodies in motion. Behind a blur of color—created by hundreds of cloth strands stretched across the stage—dancers ricochet off one another in a strobe-like flurry of actions: captured, suspended, and broken apart. Microphones installed throughout the space pick up every sound, amplifying the laws of gravity and inertia, as the dancers transgress space and time.
Music by Christopher Lancaster
Lighting design by Joe Levasseur
Installation design by Brian Brooks and Philip Treviño
Costume design by Karen Young

Brian Brooks Moving Company has been performing since 2002.

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